Total Science : Statistics in Liberal and Fascist Italy.
Title:
Total Science : Statistics in Liberal and Fascist Italy.
Author:
Prévost, Jean-Guy.
ISBN:
9780773577015
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (346 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Emergence of Modern Italian Statistics -- 2 Entrepreneurship and Rivalry: Statisticians in the Academy -- 3 The Politics of Expertise: Statisticians and the State -- 4 Form and Substance: A Science of Architectonics -- 5 The Theory and Practice of Totalitarianism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
From the early 1900s to the end of the Second World War, Italian statistics was characterized by original, consistent, and widely recognized scientific contributions, a clearly hegemonic position vis-à-vis Italian social science at that time, and the totalitarian political environment in which it developed during this period.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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